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合法

hé fǎ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

合法 (hé fǎ) means "lawful". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 合法 means

1. lawful
2. legitimate
3. legal

The characters in 合法

• 合héto close; to join; to fit
• 法fǎlaw; method; way

Example sentences

• 这样合法吗？
  Is this legal?
• 你的行为完全合法。
  Nǐ de xíngwéi wánquán héfǎ.
  Your conduct is perfectly legal.
• 税收就是合法的抢劫。
  Shuìshōu jiùshì héfǎ de qiǎngjié.
  Taxes are just legal robbery.
• 现在台湾把同性婚姻合法化。
  Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage today.
• 在加拿大不满20岁饮酒不合法。
  Zài Jiānádà bù mǎn 20 suì yǐnjiǔ bù héfǎ.
  It's not legal for people under 20 to drink in Canada.
• 自行车从右侧超过汽车是不合法的。
  Zìxíngchē cóng yòu cè chāoguò qìchē shì bù héfǎ de.
  It is illegal for bicycles to pass on the right of cars.

Words starting with 合法

• 合法性hé fǎ xìnglegitimacy
• 合法化hé fǎ huàto legalize; to make legal; legalization

Words containing 合法

• 不合法bù hé fǎillegal
• 综合法zōng hé fǎsynthesis; synthetic reasoning
• 砌合法qì hé fǎbond (in building)

Where 合法 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Ethics, Law & Social Harmony (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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